week twenty-two: get in the shot — have someone take a photo of you and your child

Here are pictures of us with each one of our kids by themselves...We are usually always taking pictures of just our kids that we are rarely in the pictures, so it will be nice to have these pictures of us with our children.
I love this picture because Deacon looks like a little mini Ben, dressed in the same clothes.
Annie doesn't cooperate when trying to take pictures so both of us had to just take pictures of her smiling at us.
We can't believe how old Emily is getting. She grows up more and more everyday.

week twenty-one: tackling a challenge or trying something new

I wasn't sure what I would put for these pictures because the girls are at ages where they aren't tackling challenges or learning new stuff all that much but they did try something new and that was playing with makeup and putting it on themselves for the first time...they will sometimes get into my makeup and put it on but that they always do in secret since they know they aren't supposed to but Emily picked out a princess makeup kit to buy with her birthday money so here are some pictures of she and Annie going to town. I love Emily's pouty face in every picture and how Annie copies Emily in the pictures.








Deacon has experienced 2 new things recently; getting teeth and sitting up. If you look close in this picture you can see 2 teeth on the bottom.
And here he is sitting up...so cute.

Week 20: whole family

I am really behind on our weekly pictures but now that we are more settled, I am going to catch up. Here is a picture of our whole family at Emily's birthday party.

Week 19: Favorite Toy

I'm a little behind on posting pictures because we have been working on moving but I will get caught up soon. I like the posts when I have the girls pick out something because it's always interesting to see what they come up with, I was surprised this week when they actually picked something that made sense. For their favorite toys both of the girls picked Zhu Zhu pets, they both got some for Christmas and love them. For some reason when i took their pictures both of the girls did something weird, these were the best pictures I could get.


Deacon's favorite toy is his ugly doll puppy that he got for Christmas from his Uncle Jayson.

Week 18: Ringing in New Year/Emily Dance

So the picture for this week is supposed to be ringing in the New Year, but new years was the day we came back from Oklahoma and we were all so exhausted and were asleep by 9, so needless to say I didn't get any pictures of us sleeping. So instead for this week I am putting a video of Emily in her dance class. She loves going. My favorite part is in the first video, that anytime she sees us watching her she will wave and blow kisses over and over.

Oklahoma

This year for Christmas we went to Oklahoma. We were pretty nervous to fly with 3 little kids but overall it was much better than we anticipated. The plane ride there was pretty exhausting because the kids needed to be constantly entertained. The plane ride back though was nice because Annie and Deacon almost slept the whole way. Here are some pictures of the kids, this is Annie and Deacon's first plane rides and Emily's third.

For some reason this is how Annie usually smiles lately.

We spent Christmas Eve at my Uncle's house and the kids had so much fun playing outside and at the pond, playing with the horses and riding 4 wheelers. After Christmas we went to a lake house that my sister rented for all of us to stay together for a few days, it was very relaxing and the weather was so nice that the kids played outside tons. We went for walks, to skip rocks at the lake, had a Just Dance tournament, watched sports, played games, and ate LOTS of food.

When we were out on a drive one day Emily got really excited when she saw this and yelled, "The Eiffel Tower!"

Deacon at the lake

The girls throwing rocks in the lake
And for some reason Ben wanted to jump in the lake while we were there, so he did and convinced a lot of the kids to do it with him. Annie did but not on purpose.


Our last night there we went on a hayride through a park to look at Christmas lights, it was a lot of fun.

Overall, it was a good trip and our kids had a LOT of fun, but we were so exhausted by the time we got home, it was nice to have a couple days to recover before Ben had to go back to work.

Week 17: your child's bedroom

Deacon's room isn't very exciting, it's also our spare bedroom so it's really just his crib. We're also in the middle of moving so there are tubs in there packed getting ready to move.

This is Annie's princess bed covered in stuffed animals
This is Emily's Tinkerbell bed...

And what all 2 and 3 year old girls need in their room, a poster of Jimmer. Emily actually asked to put this up all by herself. And since this post isn't very exciting...here's a picture of Deacon that I think is cute.